Luceti Town Meeting Cycle Year 5

[shadedsunlight]

Who: Everyone!
What: Town meeting
When: February 6th at 6 PM
Where: The school cafeteria
Summary: The village gets together for a town meeting. Let there be ideas, plans, and future festivities.
Rating:
With the help of some friends and friends of friends, the school cafeteria has been transformed into a meeting space. Rows of chairs and a few benches fill the space, providing adequate seating for whoever wishes to come to the meeting.

Along the back are some tables set with cookies, pastries, and tea, juice, and coffee for people to munch and sip on, before, during, and after the meeting

By the entrance is another table. On it sits a locked box with a slit on top, small sheets of blank paper, and a few pencils and pens. This is the message box, for anyone who wishes to express an idea or thought in an anonymous manner. The box will later be opened and all the messages inside will be read out loud by Ginia.

At the front sits a platform - one of the ones built for A Midsummer Night's Dream - with a table and chair resting on top. It's where Ginia will sit during the meeting, the extra height for the purpose of being able to see anyone who may be seated in the back row.

Links
Pre-meeting socializing
The meeting
Message Box
Headcount

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Comments

[fleurdesel]

What of those that reside outside the village? There is the house by the lake, the beach house, and those that would be patrolling as well as any in the mountains. A bell will work to an extent, and a spell as signal is an excellent idea, but what if something is done to prevent it?

The concept is somewhat antiquated, but beacons might be a good addition to both the bell and the spell.

[all7seas]

"You were on the last draft. How many of their war ships could she engage at once? What about air attacks?"

[fleurdesel]

If she is to be for combat and protection, have steps been taken for medical care onboard? The crew, if injured, do they have somewhere to be treated, and someone that can perform said treatment?

[captainhornblower]

"Not many." It's a simple, honest answer. "Exploding shot might be effective against some aerial attacks, but, again, not many. It is one ship, but I would rather see one ship engage what enemies it can as best it can than let an entire fleet land on the shores unopposed. Even if Britannia stops only one ship-- that is one ship worth of enemies others do not have to fight."

[simplestgift]

Having everyone we need is my objective in mentioning this. At the moment, we don't have everyone and everything we need. A surgeon and a ship's cook are among those I'm looking to find options for.

[all7seas]

"So she's a way to buy time, you're saying.


Not a deterrent, though. Unless they thought we have more ships than we do."

[fleurdesel]

In the former I may be of use, but not the latter. Stitching lacerations and packing shot wounds is something better suited to my skills than cooking...anything.

[simplestgift]

"By all means, Captain Jack, if you wish to create a deterrent, you are free to join us in the Joanna Joyce The more we have, the more time we can buy. At the moment, no one has even pretended we can stop a full invasion, but even a full fleet could not do so if the enemy had its mind made up. Leave the objective to those of us actually attempting to do something."

[simplestgift]

We'll consider you a candidate, ma'am. Thank you.

[fleurdesel]

The designated safe houses, what if those are to come under attack, are destroyed, or blocked off from the rest of the village? Are there secondary safe houses in mind?

[all7seas]

"Kennedy -- first off, I've sailed longer than you. I've been a Captain for nearly twenty years. I've probably been in more open-water conflicts than you, not to mention faced down the entire EITC fleet with two ships. Sit down or take a different tone.

Secondses: the Joanna is not a battleship. I just want to be clear on what your intentions are, is all. If people are signing on for a suicide mission, they should be aware of the fact. You've got powerful magician-like types on our side. Why could they not create an illusion of more ships? A glamor. Something sort of permanent-like."

He had just the person in mind, though he wasn't sure if he could ask her to do that.

[captainhornblower]

"Do you think we could convince the Third Party that this village has the manpower to crew a fleet?

You have mentioned, Captain Sparrow, facing down a fleet with two ships. That says precisely what we mean-- a fleet need not be a deterrent. One can be outnumbered and still come out victorious. Or be willing to chance the odds. That goes both ways. There is nothing to say that they would turn tail and run if they thought we had a fleet.

If Britannia could be a reliable full defence, I would welcome it. If she can only buy time and stem some flow of the battle to make the rest of the fight easier for others-- fine. If we are invaded? Any resistance might be no more than a suicide mission. That is the reality of war. You and I-- Mister Kennedy and Mister Bush-- most of the village knows this.

We must be prepared to die. But we can, at least, be equipped and manned to give them a fight and help those who do not have an easier time of it."

[all7seas]

"Aye. I think we could convince them of that, actually. Seeing, as they say, is believing. Imagination, you'll recall -- you see a fleet, you see the men behind it. My way simply spares more lives, and is therefore the better wager.

Leave the fighters to more optimal stations by the village, where the attack will be targeted. Blow the tunnel. Disable the transporter. The mountains are the best defense, well nigh impassable as they are. Play Navy on your own time."

[simplestgift]

"Jack. Unless you are planning to join the crew or help make gunpowder, I suggest you keep your suggestions for purely hypothetical situations until they are needed. All we are asking for, this moment, is a crew and powder to have the power to do something when the time comes, and when that time comes, I am sure your suggestions depending on the situation will be invaluable."

Not spoken in a very patient tone.

[chikaidestroyer]

[Albert arrives a few minutes early and sits towards the back of the room, pulling out a book to read while he waits for the meeting to begin. Once in awhile, he will jot down a note in a separate book -- the beginnings of a grocery list. Nothing special.]

[all7seas]

"It's a town meeting, Kennedy. I'm sorry if I've trod all over your bollocks in asking questions about your mad bloody useless plan, but I'm not seeing how any of my questions concerning it are out of order.

I will never join your crew, sir, because I do not trust either of you to lead said crew to any good ends. Your preparations are foolish and a waste of manpower. If I see an enemy sail on the horizon, I will be taking the steps aforementioned. If they've no way to move their armies across the mountains, they shall not reach the village."

[folklorist]

Th-there's no need to apologize, really. Last week was...hard on a lot of people. Emotions tend to do what they will and with people not remember what h-happened the weekend before... [ He gives her a small smile. ]

It's understandable tensions were high.

Advertisements, Announcements

[godbent]

[Okay so Haruhi didn't want to public speak everything. Some things can be pawned off to the managing authorities here. The following are put written on a series of note cards.

Number 1:]

Don't forget that the SOS-Brigade is open for consultation about any mysteries or confusing things in your life. Particularly given the holiday coming up if you have experienced or will experience or maybe even are experiencing interpersonal problems that you want resolved, be sure to step into our offices in town. It's literally impossible to miss us.

[Number 2:]

Looking for sailors to go on an exploratory mission around the barrier's edge by sea as far as I know [that part is crossed out. Damn writing in pen] Possible involvement of a king, ship provided. Need those willing to run a ship's maiden voyage on the sea out there. Report to SOS-Brigade HQ for more details.

[Number 3:]

Those of you who were signed up for Project Hydra Social - the Brigade's penpal initiative - please don't forget to write to your penpals. If you don't it defeats the purpose of the initiative, after all.

[Number 4:]

If anyone wants to get their hands on slot machines or pachinko machines, the SOS-Brigade currently has two of each that they are willing to sell. Payment can be in the forms of favors, interesting magical items - particularly ones which will allow people to breathe underwater - or assorted other neat things. Report of the SOS HQ if interested.

[fleurdesel]

Please just. Accept the apology. You are forgiving to a fault, Helios. [It worried her just a little, that, but she shakes it off and lets it go. Not her business. So much about him wasn't, living with him didn't change that.]

I may not remember but. It still was no reason to be so curt. To you or your friend. You were already in enough distress and didn't deserve anything I said.

[simplestgift]

"The Third Party can fly through mountains, Jack."

[all7seas]

#2: This mission is already being planned by myself and my first mate. Leaving first of June. Kings are not wanted.

Request - Underwater Exploration

[godbent]

...Actually now I think of it these seems as good of place as any to ask

[She mutters that to herself before going up to make another announcement. Unlike the previous one, this one is actually a bit more selfish in nature, but it still might be of interest to other people]

If anyone has the means to loan, build, or give my Brigade a submarine, would you be willing to part with it? Alternatives can include a means to breathe underwater - magical or otherwise - or qualified SCUBA lessons if we can find proper tanks and equipment. Not all of you will have been here long enough to remember, I suppose, but there used to be a desert where that sea is now and there used to be some ruins at the far end of the desert. I'd like to mount and expedition to see what became of those come summer.

...Thank you, again.

[all7seas]

Bugger. That was possibly true. They did have wings, after all. But worse than that --

"Their buggered flying ships."

[simplestgift]

"Which ours were quite effective against, last time. With...Captain Hornblower in command."

[godbent]

[You know... she's actually a little nervous to be here. It's an age thing, to be honest - this event is hosted by Ginia (in her thirties), will be attended by a lot of her friends (similarly old), most likely Albert and Raine (later 20s, she assumes (wrongly)), probably Brace Vesperia's leader (mid 20s, she assumes (wrongly)), the heads of the med center (later 20s, she assumes (possibly wrongly)) and clinic (...actually who's even manning that these days? Huh), and other people of notice like maybe Buffy Summers (mid 20s) or those naval officer guys (mid 20s)

...And here she is. While she is 20 years old, she is only physically 17 due to being sent home, only 5'2, and generally a Japanese teenager who thus may or may not look even younger. Haruhi's making a concentrated effort to look older here. She's dressed formally (perhaps more than is necessary), has her hair all straightened up (it's down to a little below her shoulders now) and her hair-ribbons are replaced with something more like this.

So yeah, she'll be looking uncharacteristically nervous before the meeting starts, despite showing up early]